totally epic / michelle chang
Range Life
Spring 2007
Housing studio
The most sustainable architectural act is to build smaller and to shrink daily circulation networks. In order to maximize land use for my site and to maintain an FAR of 2.0, I chose to arrange housing units in a totem configuration. Instead of using the assigned proportions of unit types - studio, 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, loft, and live/work - I increased the proportion of live/work units and decreased the alloted square footages. This freed up land for sheep grazing and farming. On the highest floor of the building, community greenhouses and chicken coops were added for year-round produce.
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Spring 2007
Housing studio
The most sustainable architectural act is to build smaller and to shrink daily circulation networks. In order to maximize land use for my site and to maintain an FAR of 2.0, I chose to arrange housing units in a totem configuration. Instead of using the assigned proportions of unit types - studio, 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, loft, and live/work - I increased the proportion of live/work units and decreased the alloted square footages. This freed up land for sheep grazing and farming. On the highest floor of the building, community greenhouses and chicken coops were added for year-round produce.
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Exploded axo of typical programming.
Site : Arnold Arboretum.
Method : 2 ways of making the world smaller.
Patterning tests: parquet sketches.
3D patterning as transformative unit types.
Unit drawings.
Typical plans.
Typical section.
Live/work apartment as the basic model.
Apartment rendering.
Farm rendering.
Core arrangement.
Unit types diagram.
Farm dwellers.